To Aru Majutsu no Index
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An Illusion Not To Be Destroyed

Top: The anime is airing on Tokyo-MX and other stations now!!Title: #40 "An Illusion Not To Be Destroyed"Middle Text: We'll always be together even when the season changes...Credits: Original Novel / Kamachi Kazuma Art / Kogino Chuuya Original Character Designs / Haimura Kiyotaka

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Sherry: We should embrace things like you and take care of them?

Sherry: Ah ha ha!Sherry: The science side really is twisted!!!

03

Sherry: Heh heh hehSherry: But it looks like it would be a pain to kill you.

Sherry: So I guess I'll see...Sherry: if you can go back to normal after I smash you to pieces.Hyouka: Ee!

Sherry: What's with that pale face?SFX: Tremble trembleSherry: Are you trying to get someone to feel sorry for you and help you?

Sherry: No one's going to feel any sympathy for a monster!!

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Hyouka: Waah!

SFX: Land

Hyouka: Hh...

SFX: Pant

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Sherry: Really? You're still trying to run away?

Sherry: Where do you think you're going to go?

Sherry: What kind of place would accept someone like you?SFX: Shock

Sherry: You don't understand, do you?Sherry: Just figure it out already!

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Sherry: There's no place in this world for a monster like you!

Hyouka: Today was the first time...Hyouka: I went to school.

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Hyouka: So I assumed I was a transfer student.

Hyouka: Today was also the first time I talked to a boy.

Hyouka: So I assumed that was I why I felt uncomfortable around him.

Hyouka: It was the first time I went out to have fun.

Hyouka: It was the first time...Hyouka: I ate a school lunch or bought drinks from a vending machine.

Hyouka: first time first time first time first time first time first ti

Hyouka: Why didn't I realize it?Hyouka: Why didn't I realize that I had no past?

Index: Here, Hyouka.Index: You can have half.

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Index: I don't really know all the details, but Hyouka's my friend.

Hyouka: That girl...Hyouka: who was the first to call me her friend...

Hyouka: wouldn't be smiling if she knew what I really was beneath this outer shell.

Hyouka: Uuh.

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Sherry: Don't cry,Sherry: you monster.

Sherry: Seeing you cry just disgusts me.

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Ellis: Roooooar

Hyouka: I don't want to die.

Hyouka: But no one needs a hideous monster like me.Hyouka: There's no place for me...

Hyouka: as long as I'm like this...

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SFX: Smash

Touma: It looks like I kept you waiting.

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Hyouka: A-ah...

Touma: C'mon, that's just pathetic.Touma: You don't have to cry over every little thing.

SFX: Crack

SFX: Crumble

Sherry: Ellis!?

Sherry: Ellis!Sherry: Pull yourself together, Ellis!!

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Hyouka: ...Tch.

SFX: Swing

SFX: WriteHyouka: When you destroy it...Hyouka: I can just remake it!!!